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Screech Bats(From the book "Heroes &
Villains")By :
Deborah Susan Jones :
Editor Dreamt-up
by the Artist in October 1990 as one of the core images
in THE SOLAR
WIND PICTURE LIBRARY which licensed the artist's works
to publishers
around the world, this image was first used on the UK
(and
Commonwealth) edition of the Legends of Lone Wolf book
series and in
fact it was No.1 in the series and subsequently appeared
on other
language paperback books, for example, in the Czech
Republic and Italy,
and was taken from the then small nucleus of images the
Artist had
begun to create that subsequently developed into the
HEROES &
VILLAINS property, a collection of classic fantasy
creatures and
scenes, for that was and is the core skill that
publishers sought from
the Artist - "strong central characters set in other
worldly scenes" as
one observer has commented.Dragons,
robots, warlocks, magicians, princesses, witches, a vast
array of
characters created specifically for, and also bought
"off the peg" from
the artist, for an extensive list of clients who had a
seemingly
limitless demand for images for a host of projects that
kept the
artist's studio busy on a roller coaster ride of demand
that stretched
from Tokyo to New York and every major, and even minor,
country in
between, to the extent that the studio even received a
faxed inquiry
from Am Oved, an Israeli publisher, on Christmas day.The inquiry began "we appreciate you will be
busy today, but I wanted to ask if . . . . . " - never a
dull moment!The
pictures mounted up until there were so many of them
around the studio
the artist was forced to start a sub business selling the
original art
to reduce stock because it was the only way to clear
a pathway to
the exit from the building!Sometimes,
what may seem glamorous to the external observer is
triggered by sheer
necessity which in turn attracts further interest and thus
one area of
activity can nurture another even if originally unintended
. . . . .Deborah Susan Jones
